How to improvise Jazz Piano. Part 1. The Bebop Scale.

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How to improvise jazz piano using the dominant bebop scale and the jazz melodic minor scale over a II-V-I chord progression, including half step rules and broken chord techniques.

In this video:
🎵 Why the mixolydian scale fails for jazz improvisation -- the rhythmic inconsistency problem and how chord tones fall off the downbeat.
🎵 The dominant bebop scale: how the added half step passing tone fixes the rhythmic issue and locks chord tones onto the downbeat.
🎵 The jazz melodic minor scale vs. the classical version -- and why jazz uses the major 3rd when descending.
🎵 How the II-V-I scales (Gm7 dorian, C7 mixolydian, FMaj7) are interchangeable and can be combined freely.
🎵 Using broken chords from the scale of chords to build motifs and move beyond straight scale runs.
🎵 Half step passing tone rules for the bebop and minor scales -- how to add chromatic color without losing your footing.

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